The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 75
In front of them, and at the end of the road of yellow brick, was a big gate, all studded with emeralds that glittered so in the sun that even the painted eyes of the Scarecrow were dazzled by their brilliancy.
Who acts: big gate, emeralds, brilliancy · What happens: be, stud, glitter, paint, dazzle · To what, where: big gate, end, all, sun, painted eyes
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big gate, emeralds, brilliancy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 front | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gate | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gate | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gate | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brick | case |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brick | amod |
| 15 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 road | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 end | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gate | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gate | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gate | amod |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 studded | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 studded | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 gate | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 emeralds | case |
| 25 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 studded | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 glittered | nsubj |
| 27 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 emeralds | acl:relcl |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 glittered | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 sun | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glittered | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 dazzled | obj |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 eyes | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 eyes | det |
| 35 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 eyes | amod |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Scarecrow | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Scarecrow | det |
| 39 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 eyes | nmod |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 41 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sun | acl:relcl |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 brilliancy | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 brilliancy | nmod:poss |
| 44 | brilliancy | brilliancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dazzled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 front | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a big gate | at the end of the road of yellow brick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stud | participle · passive | a big gate not said here | all | with emeralds | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with emerald=Theme | |||
| 3 | glitter | past | emeralds | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location | ||||
| 4 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dazzle | past · passive | eyes's brilliancy | the painted eyes of the Scarecrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer that=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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